Coronavirus Update: All Kendriya Vidyalaya school buildings to be used as isolation wards

New Delhi : All Kendriya Vidyalayas will allow the use of school buildings for temporary housing of likely COVID-19 cases, informed the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.

"All Kendriya Vidyalaya will allow the use of school buildings for temporary housing of likely COVID-19 cases, informed the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, in view of the coronavirus situation in the country," Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.

Meanwhile, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in India has gone above 1000-mark and 21 deaths, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The country is under a 21-day lockdown to check the spread of the highly contagious virus.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had termed the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic on March 11.